How ArcMap Aligns Your Data

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For today’s video blog topic, it’s back to the basics. Understanding coordinate systems and how ArcMap handles them is fundamental to a proper understanding of GIS. This is a topic a struggled with — a lot ! — when I was first learning GIS on my own.

In this video, I will show you how to investigate the coordinate system information of your data and how ArcMap handles data with different geographic and/or projected coordinate systems. There’s even a part that shows what happens when a shapefile is missing its projection file.

Still confused? Why not take one of our online training courses? Working with Coordinate Systems in GIS & GPS covers this topic in great detail. You can learn more about it by visiting www.GISTrainingVideos.com or clicking on this link. The course is part of our GIS Bundle.